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\'IRGINIA BIOGRAPHY


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pastor of the Presbyterian church at Dan- ville. \'irginia, and at the time of his death was pastor of Powhatan church, \'irginia.

Mrs. Flood was born in Cumberland coun- ty. Virginia. October 4. 1837. Her early life spent in the quiet of home, school and church, and was devoted to the acquirement of an education and in good works. She married (first) September 21. 1858. George William Hobson. born in Cumberland coun- ty. \'irginia, April 22. 1832. son of Morris Langhorne and Ann (Deane) Hobson. Lieu- tenant George \\"illiam Hobson enlisted in the "Richmond Howitzers," a famous Vir- ginia battery of the Confederate army, later served in Pendleton's battalion. Amherst artillery, in the company commanded by his brother-in-law. Captain Thomas Jellis Kirk- patrick. He attained the rank of lieutenant, bore well a soldier's part and died a soldier's death at the battle of Frederick City, July 9. 1864. He left two children. Jennie Kirk- patrick, born May 7. i860, and Christiana Jellis, born October 4. 1863, died aged nine- teen months. Jennie Kirkpatrick Hobson married Dr. John Walter Scott, of Gordons- ville, \'irginia, born .August 19, 1855, a grad- uate of the University of Virginia and Bal- timore Medical College, now a successful physician and surgeon and contributor of valuable articles in the medical journals; children : Katharine Kirkpatrick, George Hobson, John Walter (2), Marcia Pleasants and Deane Jellis, twins. In June, 1876, Mrs. Katharine Hutchinson (Kirkpatrick) Hob- son married Major John Henry Flood, of Lynchburg, \'irginia, born May 15, 1830, died June 13, 1899. Mrs. Flood is a resident of Gordonsville, Virginia, a member of the Presbyterian church, a lady greatly loved and respected by all who know her.

Henry Armistead Bullock, M. D. Well on his way to the second anniversary of his establishment in professional practice in Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Henry Armistead Bullock is indebted to this city for his pro- fessional education and training, obtained in the University College of Medicine, the Sheltering Arms Hospital, and the City Hos- pital. Since July. 1913. Dr. Bullock has been an active practitioner of Richmond, his professional standing excellent, his practice firmly founded.

Dr. Henry Armistead Bullock is a son of John Bullock, and a grandson of William


Cobb Bullock, his grandfather a native of Vance county, North Carolina. William Cobb Bullock was a farmer all of his life, and during the war between the states served in the Home (niard. physical disabil- ity preventing his enlistment in the regular Confederate army. He married Fannie Dan- iel, and had four children, one of whom died in childhood. The others : Nannie, married John B. Watkins, of Henderson, North Car- olina ; Sue. married Joseph Powell, deceased, of Brattleboro, North Carolina; and John, of whom further.

John Bullock, son of William Cobb and Fannie (Daniel) Bullock, was born in Bul- lock, Granville county. North Carolina. June 22. 1855. the place of his birth named in honor of a great-uncle, James Bullock. The farm upon which he was born was the scene of his future life, and there he resides at the present time. He married Panthea Susan Boyd, born in Townsville. Vance county. North Carolina, April 7, 1861, daughter of William H. Boyd, deceased, and his wife, Sarah (Daniel) Boyd, living in 1914, in Townsville, North Carolina, aged eighty years. Children of John and Panthea Susan (Boyd) Bullock: Sallie \'irginia, born De- cember 21, 1885, lives unmarried at home; William C, born October 17, 18S8, engaged in lumber dealing at Roxboro, North Caro- lina ; Dr. Henry Armistead, of whom fur- ther ; Richard Austin, born March 9, 1893 ! John W. (Jack), born September i, 1895; Annie Boyd, born June 10, 1898; George Blair, born September 12. 1901.

Dr. Henry Armistead Bullock, third child and second son of John and Panthea Susan (Boyd) Bullock, was born on the homestead in Granville county, North Carolina, Feb- ruary 2, 1891. Prior to entrance of the Uni- versity College of Medicine at Richmond, he completed a course in the Warrenton high school, Warren county, North Caro- lina, and was graduated from the former in- stitution Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1 91 2. P'or one and one-half years he per- formed the duties of interne, for six months in the Sheltering Arms Hospital and one year in the City Hospital. In July, 1913, he established in general jjractice, and has since successfully continued. Dr.^ Bullock is a member of the Virginia State, the Southern, and the .American Medical associations, and fraternally is associated with the Masonic order, holding the thirty-second degree. An-